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The Higher Learning Commission, an independent corporation that was founded in 1895 as one of seven regional accreditors in the United States, has placed Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio, “On Notice.” The Commission took this a...
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Gregory E. Triplett Jr., who has served as the dean of the School of Science and Engineering at Saint Louis University since July, has been named as the inaugural holder of the Oliver L. Parks Endowed Deanship. Before joining Saint Louis University i...
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The Howard University College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences will launch two online degree programs scheduled to begin in 2024. The master of health administration and doctor of nursing practice programs will equip students with the skills and...
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Dorothy Butler Gilliam, the first African American woman reporter at the Washington Post and a long-time educator, has won the W.M. Kiplinger Distinguished Contributions to Journalism Award from the National Press Foundation. The Kiplinger Award was...
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The U.S. Department of Education has announced $93 million in grant awards to 20 colleges and universities to support research and development at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities, and Minorit...
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Iris A. Elijah was named deputy general counsel at Florida A&M University. Elijah was an associate general counsel at Florida International University in Miami for five years. Before that, she was an assistant general counsel for the Florida Boar...
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John B. Slaughter, former chancellor of the University of Maryland and former president of Occidental College in Los Angeles, died on December 6 at a hospital in California. He was 89 years old. A native of Topeka, Kansas, Dr. Slaughter was a graduat...
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The University Press of Kentucky has announced a new publishing imprint, Screen Door Press. The new entity is dedicated to discovering unique, exceptional, and varied voices within Black literary traditions. The imprint will celebrate the very best...
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A new report from RTI International, a nonprofit research institute, and commissioned by the Sloan Foundation, explores the educational experiences of Black and Hispanic doctoral recipients in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.The pap...
- 4 months ago
A new report from RTI International, a nonprofit research institute, and commissioned by the Sloan Foundation, explores the educational experiences of Black and Hispanic doctoral recipients in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The pa...
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Tonya L. Peeples has been named the permanent Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering in the Pennsylvania State University College of Engineering, effective January 1. Peeples has held the role in an interim capacity since July. “Being chosen to l...
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A new study led by researchers at Stanford University finds that there is very little interaction between people in different socioeconomic groups in the nation’s largest cities. Big cities may be more socioeconomically segregated than small ci...
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Two days after the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges voted to strip historically Black St. Augustine’s University of its accreditation, president Christine McPhail was fired. The Southern Association of College...
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According to the latest Open Doors report from the Institute on International Education, in the 2021-22 academic year, there were 90,891 scholars from foreign nations teaching at colleges and universities in the United States. More than a third of th...
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Cynthia Nance, who has been serving as interim dean of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville School of Law since last summer, will continue to lead the law school as permanent dean through June 2026. Professor Nance first joined the University o...
